So You Want to Be a Wizard

Reader reviewed by Bettina

Nita is always being bullied by a girl and her cronies. One day she ducks into the library to hide from the bullies and finds a mysterious book called So You Want to Be a Wizard. At first she thinks, Whatever, it's probably a just for fun book, but soon she gets proved wrong. She finds out that magic is quite real and it's not just waving around a stick and yelling nonsense. Instead, she finds herself in a battle between the forces of good and evil. She also makes friends with another amateur wizard called Kit.

I thught that this was a pretty good book. The characters were well developed and the plot didn't run around in circles.

Reader reviewed by Cassie

This is the first in eight (so far) of the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. A girl called Nita who is bullied by people at school goes into her local library for refuge and there she finds something that will change her life forever..... a book. But not just any book, this is a book that could make her..... a wizard! It sounds fantastical and highly unreal but Nita takes "the Oath". Wizardry, though is not what some books would have you believe. A flick of a wand and pow! Magic!

Not quite :D It turns out that wizardry is a lot more difficult and entails a lot of hard work. Not to say wizards don't have fun! When Nita is trying out her new found powers she meets a boy who is also a wizard, Christopher Rodriguez but call him Kit. Now as the manual detailed in the introduction before becoming a proper wizard you must undertake an ordeal of sorts. I want to say more but I'm afraid I'll give to much away.

Interested? Then read the series, they're great!!